Kimi

“Cursor proved that even if you only have the 'shell,' the data that shell generates, combined with post-training, can produce a genuinely good model. Cursor's Composer — based on Kimi's pre-training and Cursor's own high-quality feedback data — is actually a quite good model.”

“We invested in Kimi, which is probably the domestic company most focused on agentic coding as a technical model company. In 2025 they completed a massive transformation and are now, we believe, possibly the world's best open-source coding model.”

“If you ask most startups, most academia in the U.S. that are using open source, they're usually using Chinese open source models, right? You've probably heard of DeepSeek, of Qwen, of Kimi.”

“Zhou Xingyu of Kimi also used to do competitive programming.”